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About Payton McCarty-Simas
Payton McCarty-Simas is a film critic, programmer, and co-editor of The Brooklyn Rail’s film section. Her writing has been featured in The Hollywood Reporter, Filmmaker Magazine and others, and she is the author of two books, One Step Short of Crazy: National Treasure and the Landscape of American Conspiracy Culture, and That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film.
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Podcaster and film historian KARINA LONGWORTH on The Bisexuals, her new season of “YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS”

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An interview with podcaster and film historian Karina Longworth about “The Bisexuals” – the latest season of YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS, her show about the secret and/or forgotten history of Hollywood’s first century […]

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“Fear and Cinema Are Inextricable”: Kiyoshi Kurosawa on THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER

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An interview with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa about his newest film THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER […]

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“You Can’t Lose the Rage”: Ngozi Onwurah on her film WELCOME II THE TERRORDOME (1995)

July 30, 2026 0

Ngozi Onwurah discusses her radically feminist, Afrofuturist tragedy, WELCOME II THE TERRORDOME (1995), screening in a new restoration at BAM July 31 – August 6 […]

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    LOGAN LYNN on his new documentary & album THE PAIN AND THE POWER
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    Musician Jim Coleman on Contra-ICE Vol. 1: ICE OUT, a powerful new collaborative album taking a stand against inhumane immigration enforcement
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    Burning down and rising up: Lee Emi on her solo debut album DESTROY EVERYTHING
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    Constructing new systems of authorship: JESSE DRAXLER on his collaborative project TONGUE OF ANGELS
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    An interview with multidisciplinary artist & musician BIRDTHROWER (Robert O. Leaver)
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    Interconnections across time, space, and universes: EXIT PARTY by Emily St. John Mandel
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